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RUSH: We do not have limited dreams of our size and scope here or on our achievement at the EIB Network. AP even has a story on this: “Obama Pedals Modest American Dream.” It\u2019s by Erica Werner. “This time around, President Barack Obama\u2019s message can sound decidedly down-to-earth. Four years after winning the White House, Obama is dealing with a different economic –” and so forth and so on. It\u2019s supposed to be a news article, not analysis or an editorial. The AP\u2019s claiming Obama is no longer focused on the lofty version of overcoming divisions and remaking Washington. No, no, he\u2019s come down to earth now.<\/p>\n


\nObama has come down to earth. He\u2019s now concerned with the most building blocks of middle class economic security: a job, a house, a college education for the kids, health care, money for retirement. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s what he\u2019s focused on. That\u2019s it, no more grandiose dreams. He\u2019s come down to earth. And they\u2019re happy. They at AP think this is reasonable, responsible. My question is can you dorks at AP, Ms. Werner, can any of you point to where Obama has improved any of this is? He controls the student loan program. He controls health care. Hell, he controls the housing market. Can anybody tell me where any of this is any better with Obama in charge? Don\u2019t try. You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Another very, very, very, very, very, very worried about rising gasoline prices now, Washington Post and New York Times, I think on Sunday both had stories, “Uh-oh, no, rising gas prices, could it possibly be damaging to Obama\u2019s campaign?” New York Times, Washington Post both concerned about rising gasoline prices. Do you realize gasoline prices have never been higher at this time of year than they are right now? In some places in LA, $4.93 cents a gallon. They\u2019ve never been higher. In his daily news briefing just now, Jay Carney, White House press spokesman, said there\u2019s no magic solution to rising oil prices. “The president\u2019s very aware of the pain Americans feel at the pump.”<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it funny. That\u2019s not what we heard from the Democrats during the summer of 2008. No. See, every time the gasoline price went up, why didn\u2019t Bush do something? Remember John Kerry who, by the way, served in Vietnam, if he were president, he\u2019d go over there and he\u2019d tell the Saudis what for. He\u2019d go over there, he wouldn\u2019t let the Saudis get away with this. He\u2019d tell \u2019em what for. He\u2019d make their minds right. He\u2019d tell them what the reality of the world is. Every time the gas prices went up under Bush, Bush could do something about it. Heck, a lot of media people said there\u2019s a magic guy behind the curtains in charge gas prices. They wanted to set out to find out who it might be. The price of gasoline\u2019s up 90% since when Obama took office, folks. They\u2019re right to be concerned about it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Scott, Jacksonville, Florida. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Raspberry Two If By Tea mega dittos from your number one listening in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, Scott. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Yesterday Nancy Pelosi said the Democrats shouldn\u2019t get cocky about their reelection hopes in 2012.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She would know “cocky” if anybody would on that side.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) So my question, Rush, is: Shouldn\u2019t Republicans take advantage of these rising gas prices to point to Obama\u2019s lack of concern for America?<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Yeah. I think rising gas price, say, “What happened to Keystone pipeline?” Rising gas price, “Why is the drilling moratorium still going on in the Gulf?” Rising gasoline price, “Why the obstacles to domestic production?” And then if I were the Republicans, I\u2019d go back and I\u2019d get that Obama quote where he really wasn\u2019t unhappy that the price of gas had hit four bucks. He was just unhappy how rapidly it happened. See, the dirty little secret, folks — Scott, I\u2019m sure you know this — is Obama wants high gas prices. “Mr. Limbaugh, that is one of the most irresponsible things I have ever heard any talk show host say!”<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s very true, Mr. New Castrati. High gas prices will push people out of their cars and into electric cars and hybrids, mass transit. A high gasoline price is exactly what Obama wants. Obama wants pain. He wants interruptions to normalcy. Obama doesn\u2019t want you being able to cheaply move around the country, cheaply move around your town. Obama doesn\u2019t want that! This guy has invested everything he has, including your taxpayer dollars, into “green energy.” And you know the fraud that\u2019s gone on there with the crony capitalism and the like. Obama\u2019s not unhappy with $4 gasoline. Jay Carney said, “Eh, really not a whole lot that can be done about rising gas prices.” I think John Kerry… Didn\u2019t John Kerry accuse Bush of having a secret deal with the Saudis? I think he did.<\/p>\n

In the 2004 presidential campaign, he accused Bush of having some kind of secret deal to keep prices down during the campaign. It was some silly thing. But if I were the Republicans, I would make hay out of this, if for no other reason than to settle a score. You go back to 2006, rising gas prices, and check all the quotes from Democrats accusing Bush of doing it on purpose, or accusing Bush\u2019s economic policies of causing it, or accusing Bush of not caring about it. Or, worse than that, Bush and Cheney personally profiting from it! You know, Cheney at Halliburton, Bush and the Bush family with Big Oil. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it\u2019s all coming back to me now. That\u2019s exactly what happened. They accused Bush and Cheney of profiting from rising oil prices. So damn right I turn it on \u2019em! I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna have to. The New York Times and the Washington Post both on Sunday had stories. It might have been Monday, although I don\u2019t think so. This is Tuesday. Might have been Monday, but both papers were worried to death about rising gas price, what it meant to poor Obama\u2019s election chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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